`What a pity you can't visit me!'

`Oh, yes, I'll come. - I've had scarlatina, and I'll persuade maman to let me come.'

Kitty insisted on having her way, and went to stay at her sister's and nursed the children all through the scarlatina - for it really proved to be scarlatina. The two sisters brought all the six children successfully through it; Kitty's health, however, did not improve, and in Lent the Shcherbatskys went abroad.